Images are being generated at an ever-increasing rate by sources such as defence and
civilian satellites, military reconnaissance and surveillance flights, fingerprinting and mug-shot-…

Similarity-based retrieval of images is an important task in many image database applications.
A major class of users' requests requires retrieving those images in the database that are …

Effective search and retrieval are enabling technologies for realizing the full potential of the
Web. The authors examine relevant issues, including methods for representing document …

… For information on all North-Holland publications visit our website at https://www. elsevier.
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… VENKAT N. GUDIVADA is a professor of computer science and interim division chair at …
Gudivada received a PhD in computer science from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, …

The advent of Big Data created a need for out-of-the-box horizontal scalability for data
management systems. This ushered in an array of choices for Big Data management under the …

Because users rarely click on links beyond the first search results page, boosting search-engine
ranking has become essential to business success. With a deeper knowledge of search-…

This chapter presents a tutorial introduction to modern information retrieval concepts, models,
and systems. It begins with a reference architecture for the current Information Retrieval (IR…

This chapter defines analytics and traces its evolution from its origin in 1988 to its current
stage—cognitive analytics. We discuss types of learning and describe classes of machine …

This chapter describes core tasks that are routinely performed on natural language texts.
Some of these tasks are often considered as preprocessing and form the foundation for …